Month: November 2016

Like people pining for the “good old days”, people pine for the days when journalism was not full of fake news and bias, days they probably never existed. ——————————————————————————————————– Fake news is hardly new. In fact, fake news is probably closer to the actual heritage of journalism than truth-telling is. Source: We Don’t Have a …

Well, this is midly terrifiying for someone who has asthma and lives in a place that gets lots of thunderstorms ——————————————————— An unusual combination of weather conditions leading to a freak illness known as thunderstorm asthma has left three people dead in Australia. Source: Thunderstorm asthma kills 3 in Australia: What is it? – CNN.com

I bounce back and force with my opinion on lifelogging, but this article makes some sense regardless of what your opinion is. Before, only academic supergeeks tracked and recorded everything to achieve a photographic memory. But now you can, too. Source: How lifelogging will become easy and automatic | Computerworld

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How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements — how little of your own was left to you. You will realize you are dying before your time! – Seneca, On the Brevity …

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Our increasing addiction to the constant stimulus of updates, likes and posts is damaging our ability to concentrate deeply and focus on work that matters. Source: Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. – The New York Times

I haven’t used this on any platforms other than Linux, but it’s been a really good tool for visualizing my many github repos Axosoft GitKraken is the downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Unleash your repo by downloading GitKraken for free now! Source: Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux | …

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Some “biggish” names have left Twitter: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/fashion/breaking-up-with-twitter-presidential-election-2016.html http://inessential.com/2016/11/09/on_leaving_twitter http://the-orbit.net/zinniajones/2016/11/yes-im-okay-even-better/ Common reasons are the Twitter culture and what a time waster it is. In addition, Zinnia Jones receives a lot of abuse on Twitter. Since I never received any abuse on Twitter and it’s doubtful anyone would have targeted me anyway, I don’t have great standing …

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A Skeptic’s Guide to Islam raised nearly $10,000 in 2012, and as far as I can tell, no one knows if a word of it has ever been written. Its Amazon page lists the new publication date as December 7, 2017, but it also says “Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will …

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On this blog, I don’t like to write about either politics (but here is an example) or religion (example here), because one of the main attractions of Stoicism, for me, is precisely that it is… Source: Stoicism and climate change | How to Be a Stoic